Passenger Jet Makes Emergency Landing At SMF After Hitting Bird

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A rider pitchy was forced to marque an exigency landing astatine Sacramento International Airport aft it deed a bird.

The Aeroméxico Boeing 737 deed a vertebrate soon aft takeoff. It burned substance for much than an hr earlier landing safely backmost astatine the airport.

Nobody was wounded successful the incident.

Bird strikes are not uncommon successful Sacramento. According to FAA data, Sacramento International Airport has astir 105 vertebrate strikes, per year.

CBS13 Staff